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 | Specialist Medals
PO Box 278
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 1AU
Telephone: 01491 825974
Email: roger@willoughby.ie |  | Concentrating primarily on lifesaving medals and selected civil awards, Specialist Medals aims to offer a range of such items for your consideration. Due to the individual nature of such awards, each is here described along with a synopsis of the circumstances leading up to the award and biographical details of recipients where such information is available. Do contact me directly to discuss any particular piece that may be of interest or if you are seeking medals that you want to be notified of should they become available. Wants are listed on the site without charge. Those of you considering disposing of medals are strongly encouraged to negotiate such sales through Specialist Medals, by either selling directly to me to supplement present stock or using Specialist Medals as your agent to advertise and conduct the sale. Where such 'agent sales' are your option of choice, medals are held by me, advertised, negotiations undertaken and sold in return for a competitive commission of 5% of the total sum realised. In addition to such trading, Specialist Medals aims to support research and discussion of these areas through highlighting useful web links, hosting articles and illustrating the various types of awards. Your contributions to these areas are welcome. As a collector of over 30 years experience and as a member of the Orders and Medals Research Society (OMRS) and the Life Saving Awards Research Society (LSARS), I support the aims and policies of both organisations and strongly encourage any of you who are not members to consider joining. LSARS is particularly relevant to those interested in lifesaving awards and further details and a membership application are available here to download.  Items may be paid for by cheque or bankers draft, made payable to 'Dr Roger Willoughby'. Payment is also possible using PayPal, though this will incur additional transaction charges. Do enquire about extended payment terms.
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RHS Bronze Medals
Small type, named ‘Revd. Arthur Frazer Sim, B.A., 16th March 1889’. With ribbon buckle and in case of issue. RHS case no 24302: At 5.30pm on 16 March 1889 a child accidentally fell off the quay into the River Wear at Sunderland and was rapidly carried downstream by the current. The Reverend Sim, curate of St John’s, Sunderland, arrived at the scene, threw off his coat and plunged into the water. Swimming out to the child, he caught him and succeeded in bringing him to the quay where he was assisted out. Born on 2 November 1861 in Madras the son of J D Sim, CSI, Arthur Fraser Sim came to England for his education when he was seven in Cheltenham. He became Senior Prefect and Captain of the College Boat Club before he went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1881. Here he continued his rowing, being stroke in the college boat for four years. Sim was also a fine football player. He took his BA in 1884 and went into Holy Orders at Bishop Auckland. Ordained a Deacon in 1885, he became a curate at St John’s Parish, Sunderland. Ordained a Priest in 1887, he moved to St Aidan’s, West Hartlepool in 1890. In 1894 he became a missionary with the Universities Mission to Central Africa, serving with great distinction at Kota Kota, Zambia, for 18 months. The Rev Sim died there of fever on 29 October 1895, aged 34. A memorial window to his memory was unveiled in St Aidan's Church, West Hartlepool, on 29 October the following year (Northern Echo, 30 October 1896). Sold with RHS details, newspaper research, and a rare copy of his Life and Letters of Arthur Fraser Sim, Pioneer Missionary Kota Kota British Central Africa (London: University Mission to Central Africa, 1897). EF. £750.
Item Status: For Sale
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